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Naturally, this has led many individuals, sites and businesses seeking higher rankings to employee tactics that are plausibly removed from the direct exchange of capital for links, and while link brokers and link sales still thrive, they do so in an ever-increasingly paranoid & underground realm so as not to risk discovery and devaluation. In this  More...
Best-selling Author Scott Fox (me) offers a free download report titled "5 Instant Internet Businesses" if you'll take a reader survey. The free Special Report details "quick start" start-up e-businesses that anyone can start without much capital or tech expertise.  More...
Vendors at VoiceCon San Francisco 2008 pushed a message that unified communications can cut operational costs and help businesses get more out of the people they have. Both Microsoft and IBM executives highlighted cost savings and productivity enhancement during their keynotes with demonstrations of their UC products. Separately, Avaya announced 0  More...
The difficult question is when should you loosen your purse strings and by how much? Each of us small business persons has to decide on our own based on the circumstances we face.  More...
Spending a lot of time on the internet you see quite a few small business websites. Some are quite good, others come close but miss the mark. These 5 tips for small business websites will not be hard for your business to impliment (if you haven’t already) and will help insure your customers have a positive interaction with the virtual you!  More...
The economic tide continues to deliver plenty of ebb with very little flow. The impact of decreased spending and tanking consumer confidence is being felt by companies across the board. Often, none feel it more strongly than the marketers within those businesses.  More...
Business buyers often aren’t spending their own money. That’s good and bad. Good because they’re more open to big-ticket purchases. Bad because they usually have to get approval from others. In fact, you must sometimes talk to many layers of a company before making a sale - decision makers, buyers, and end users. All of which means you have to pro  More...
Small businesses have been having increasing trouble getting loans as the credit markets have seized up. But some, such as Tio's Mexican, are finding that smaller community banks and credit unions are more open to offering financing. For one thing, many smaller lenders are in relatively strong financial shape because they didn't make the types o  More...
An update on how the government may encourage bank-recipients of government capital to lend the money out, and how this will affect small businesses.  More...
The survey found that everybody was spending money on demand-generation programs, but was missing a trick in not looking closer to home at their existing customer data and leveraging it further. We all know that it is easier to sell more of a product or service to a current customer than it is to try and get a potential customer on board, so it b  More...
Well America has a new President, Barack Obama. Some of Obama’s plans for small business include: - Increase the minimum wage and index the rate to inflation so that it goes up every year - Wants to eliminate all capital gains taxes for new business start-ups - Give a $500 credit to business owners to offset the self-employment tax  More...
Seven startups have done just that and now stand to win $100K in the Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge.  More...
From Angels to Microlenders, here are seven ways to secure that all-important loan without going to a bank.  More...
In The Disconnect in PPC vs. SEO Spending, Rand Fishkin demonstrates that "SEO drives 75%+ of all search traffic, yet garners less than 15% of marketing budgets for SEM campaigns. PPC receives less than 25% of all search traffic, yet earns 80%+ of SEM campaign budgets," then asks: "Why does paid search earn so many more marketing dollars?"  More...
Yesterday at the MarketingProfs event, Ariana Huffington took the stage for a keynote presentation sharing some lessons she has learned about building a successful blog network with the Huffington Post. Though she definitely ignored my advice to speakers about spending some time at an event to get to know the attendees (she was barely off the stag  More...